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Goldsboro Octo. [sic] 31st 1862
Gov Z. B. Vance
Dear Sir
Enclosed please find check on Bank of North Carolina for $60. a contribution by my wife & daughters & the citizens of Kinston & vicinity as a gun boat fund, which project exploded after the fall of several of our seaport towns & Fort Dollenson, the money was returned to my wife to refund to the several contributors. We find in the Raleigh Standard an appeal from your Excellency to the citizens of North Carolina for clothing shoes etc for our brave soldiers, and as we cannot procure them in this section we have got the consent of the several contributors to dispose of the funds in any manner we thought proper for the benefit of our soldiers. Not knowing whom to send the check to, we have taken the liberty of enclosing to you, knowing that it will be properly attended to. You will please dispose of the proceeds of the check for the benefit of our sick & wounded soldiers in Va. You will perceive that I am writing from Goldsboro where I am now living for how long I cannot say. I deemed it imprudent to remain in Lenoir longer as every once in a while the Negroes [illegible] leaving for the Yankees, and my impression is that they will come to Kinston this winter and there will be a general stampede of the Negroes, and I am advising my particular friends to remove them up the country, and many of them are doing so [?] the blood & thunder fellows have long since done so, they you know, were to whip the Yankees in no time, but the first booming of the cannon on our coast they took fright and left the true men to protect the

Goldsboro Octo. [sic] 31st 1862
Gov Z. B. Vance
Dear Sir
Enclosed please find check on Bank of North Carolina for $60. a contribution by my wife & daughters & the citizens of Kinston & vicinity as a gun boat fund, which project exploded after the fall of several of our seaport towns & Fort Dollenson, the money was returned to my wife to refund to the several contributors. We find in the Raleigh Standard an appeal from your Excellency to the citizens of North Carolina for clothing shoes etc for our brave soldiers, and as we cannot procure them in this section we have got the consent of the several contributors to dispose of the funds in any manner we thought proper for the benefit of our soldiers. Not knowing whom to send the check to, we have taken the liberty of enclosing to you, knowing that it will be properly attended to. You will please dispose of the proceeds of the check for the benefit of our sick & wounded soldiers in Va. You will perceive that I am writing from Goldsboro where I am now living for how long I cannot say. I deemed it imprudent to remain in Lenoir longer as every once in a while the Negroes [illegible] leaving for the Yankees, and my impression is that they will come to Kinston this winter and there will be a general stampede of the Negroes, and I am advising my particular friends to remove them up the country, and many of them are doing so [?] the blood & thunder fellows have long since done so, they you know, were to whip the Yankees in no time, but the first booming of the cannon on our coast they took fright and left the true men to protect the